Dragons of Stormwreck Isle [2][IC][2024]

Onji copies:   Initiative 23

Marin's Initiative: 15 

Irtos initiative 16

Dirk 13

Anyone want to swap iniative scores?

Stirges initiative 5

The party goes first. The 8 stirges have just swarmed out of their nest and are circling the cavern. The two myconids immediately move to gather and protect the three small mushroom-folk fleeing the chamber. Every single stirge is within 30 feet of every party member.

With shield in hand Onji grabs a boomerang and aims and throws it at a stirge 

Rolled in game log, attack 25 damage 7.

 Marin uses his free action to sheath his shortsword and then draws his shortbow and fires off an arrow at the nearest stirge that has not been attacked yet.

Shortbow Attack: 18

Shortbow Damage: 6 piercing.

Irtos will toll the death for one of the stirges.

DC 13 WIS save to avoid 2 necrotic damage

Dirk pulls back an arrow…

7 to hit.

Wisdom save 4

Everyone but Dirk lands a hit, quickly dispatching 2 of the stirges. The one targeted by Irtos freezes momentarily in midair as the dark, necrotic magic creeps over the back of its wings before it drops.

The remaining stirges whip into a frenzy, diving toward the party. They swarm you, buzzing fiercely as they attempt to pierce your skin with their dagger-length proboscises and drain your blood!

Stirges 1 and 2 (both healthy) swoop down to attack Onji.

Attack: 18 Damage: 6

Attack: 17 Damage: 9

Stirge 3 (healthy) darts through the air toward Marin.

Attack: 19 Damage: 6

Stirge 4 (healthy) targets Dirk.

Attack: 20 Damage: 4

Stirges 5 (healthy) and 6 (wounded) double team Irtos.

Attack: 20 Damage: 7

Attack: 7 Damage: 5

Those that hit attach themselves to their targets, burrowing in. While attached, a target takes 3 necrotic damage at the start of each of that stirge's turns as the corruption seeps into the wounds.

Round 2

The swarm is clinging to you, and the necrotic burn is setting in. It is back to the party's turn.

Marin stows his shortbow with his free action and then moves over to Dirk and attacks the stirge attached to Dirk with his shortsword.

Shortsword Attack: 9

"Get it off me! Get it off me!"

Dirk sees Marin coming at him and for just a second he is motionless with wonder why is Marin drawing steel at me?  Then as Marin’s words sink in he realizes the blade was for the blood sucker.

Dirk likewise drops his bow and draws his stone-club ‘shillelagh’.

attack 13 damage 11 force

While Marin tries to get the stirge off of Dir, Irtos tires to get the sitrge off of Marin with a short prayer to Toll the Dead. The stirge, Marin, and anyone else within 10 feet hear the single chime of a dolorous bell.

Action: Toll the Dead: DC 13 WIS save to avoid 1 necrotic damage. 

She then says an even shorter prayer to heal the badly wounded Marin so he might not succumb to the stirge draining his blood. 

Bonus action: Healing Word: Heals Marin for 10 HP

Onji was able to avoid one but the second found an opening and stuck him. Onji sticks the boomerang in his belt and grabs the overgrown mosquito and attempts to squash the life out of them.

Unarmed attack 22 damage 5

Stirge 1 and stirge 4 - dead

Stirge 3 wisdom saving throw 0

Onji crushes the stirge attached to him with his bare arms and throws it on the ground in a small, lifeless heap. The second stirge is still circling the dwarf, trying to find a spot between his armour to bury its proboscis. Attack: 9 Damage: 8

Irtos' necrotic magic causes parts of Stirge 3's body to turn grey, but the creature doesn't let go of Marin, sucking some of his life essence (3 necrotic damage). 

Dirk manages to hit the creature sucking on his own blood with a vicious sweep of his club, breaking the stirge's fragile body, killing it instantly. 

The stirge attached to Irtos begins sucking the dragonborn's blood (3 necrotic damage) and stirge 6 (wounded) tries to find another spot to do the same. Attack: 9 Damage: 7

Back to the party's turn. Remaining stirges: stirge 2, stirge 3 (wounded), stirge 5 and stirge 6 (wounded).